posted at 8:21 pm on July 2, 2013 by Erika Johnsen

As Ed reminded us on Monday, ObamaCare is going to mean higher health insurance premiums for the many Americans who will be required to take on pricier, more comprehensive plans that they don’t necessarily want or need in order to subsidize the higher-risk insurance pools that the health-care overhaul is forcing upon the populace by design. In California, the first state that eagerly jumped on the ObamaCare bandwagon, state officials have been mighty disgruntled at insurers that have been considering raising their health-insurance rates above what the state believes to be fair and reasonable prices.

It turns out, however, that the entire regulatory-administrative kit and kaboodle is beginning to cost at least a few major insurers more trouble than it’s worth: Earlier this year, UnitedHealth, Aetna, and Cigna all announced they will not be participating in California’s state exchange for individuals; and in June, Aetna announced that they were opting out of the individual insurance market altogether and instead focusing their business energies on providing insurance plans through large and small employers. Now, UnitedHealth is following suit, via the LA Times:

The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is leaving California’s individual health insurance market, the second major company to exit in advance of major changes under the Affordable Care Act. …

UnitedHealth said it had notified state regulators that it would leave the state’s individual market at year-end and force about 8,000 customers to find new coverage. Last month, Aetna Inc., the nation’s third-largest health insurer, made a similar move affecting about 50,000 existing policyholders. …

The moves illustrate how different companies are responding to a major overhaul of the health insurance market for millions of consumers. Starting Jan. 1, the federal healthcare law forces insurers to accept all individual applicants regardless of their medical history and provide a comprehensive set of benefits with limits on patients’ out-of-pocket spending.

Oh, goodness — the Obama administration has been making the completion of the more than thirty federally-run individual insurance exchanges their top priority before the intended deadline, at the expense of some of the law’s other promises. Insurers in the law’s most enthusiastic state are already losing interest in being a part of it, and severely doubt that we’ve heard the last of it. Especially in light of the news earlier this evening that the employer mandate is getting delayed until 2015, they have definitely created a monster — and it just keeps getting scarier.

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An Ass masquerading as a President once found a Doctor’s white lab coat which had been left out in the sun to dry. He put it on and spoke to his countrymen. All bowed, both men and women, and he was a proud Ass that day. In his delight he lifted up his voice and brayed treatments and prescriptions randomly and incoherently and unleashed mindless and thirsty bureaucrats upon the land and then everyone knew him for what he really was.

Roy also believes that the move will have two effects — it will delay the unemployment-raising effect of ObamaCare (to the Democrats’ political advantage, naturally) and will drive more people to join the state health care exchanges, because they’ll be forced to buy insurance (note the individual mandate is still in effect) while businesses aren’t required to provide it for another year. Whether this outcome is desired or not, it will have the effect of pushing more people off employer insurance and into a government system, which many suspect, with good reason, is the Trojan Horse plan behind this all from the beginning of it.

AOSHQ, citing Avik Roy.

No doubt employers will continue to drop coverage, turn full-time into part-time, keep part-time below 30 hours, and keep the number of employees below 50, if they can. This will result in more uninsured individuals.

However, the individual mandate is not be in postponed.

And the IRS will be enforcing that…

So individuals will be forced into the under-subscribed state and federal exchanges.

I used to have a friend that worked there and that trained their claims adjusters and he trained them to deny every claim, first thing… He traveled all over the country training them how to lower claims.Then wait for them to come back and contest it. UHC is EVIL…

I can give you his name… if anyone wants to find him and interview him.

Break it, then have the media trumpet how broke it is, low information Yahoo News voters believe the one paragraph headline, then come in with the “solution” to fix the industry that’s “broken”……..repeat as necessary….

Yes many formerly socialist healthcare is asking for waiver because is so expensive. Glorious leader will provide. Future is GLORIOUS. we just wait for glorious new 300 page law comes to effect. All is will be well in new ad glorious run health care, 0bmama says so, so is true.

Lack of doktors and massive cut in medicare is feature not bug. all will be happy and good.

Well with the capitalist private sector deserting the poor private citizens of America it’s is time for Captain Obama to fly down from the top of the tallest building to save the victims from the evil profit makers and declare single payer-via Washington to be the only salvation for mankind. The war on the heath of every America and planned parenthood must be stopped now–in time for the 2014 election.

I used to have a friend that worked there and that trained their claims adjusters and he trained them to deny every claim, first thing… He traveled all over the country training them how to lower claims.Then wait for them to come back and contest it. UHC is EVIL…

I can give you his name… if anyone wants to find him and interview him.

UnitedHealth said it had notified state regulators that it would leave the state’s individual market at year-end and force about 8,000 customers to find new coverage. Last month, Aetna Inc., the nation’s third-largest health insurer, made a similar move affecting about 50,000 existing policyholders.

So now there are at least 58,000 people in California, who have lost their coverage, lost their favorite doctor and are in for a huge surprise when they try to buy individual insurance. We should be hearing a rather large outcry from these folks by year’s end.